The Old Devils
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  • Published: 1 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099461050
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $35.00

The Old Devils

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Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
  • Published: 1 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099461050
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis has been described as 'the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century'. Born in 1922, he wrote over twenty novels, including Lucky Jim (1954), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction, The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995). He also published several collections of short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Amis was awarded a CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in 1995.

Also by Kingsley Amis

Lucky Jim
Collected Poems
The Amis Collection
All The Blood Within Me
That Uncertain Feeling
Take a Girl Like You
Difficulties With Girls
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Praise for The Old Devils

A copy should be given out with every bus pass.

John Sutherland, The Times

A brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad

Anthony Burgess

He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist

John Mortimer

A bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle

Financial Times

In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable, the literary it man

Sunday Telegraph